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- From: gdg019@cch.coventry.ac.uk (Ridley McIntyre)
- Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
- Subject: Re: Cyberpunk RPG Character Generation
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 19:55:08 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.151007.25739@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> nshomron@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Noam Shomron) writes:
- >In article <1jkueuINN8cq@lester.appstate.edu> GRS00042@CONRAD.APPSTATE.EDU (Dov
- > Sherman) writes:
- >>If anyone is aware of a Cyberpunk RPG Character Generation program on
- >>the Internet, I would be very interested. Particularly I want to know
- >>about the portion dealing with history/background/life-story generation.
- >>For that matter, a text file explaining the particulars would do just as
- >>well.
- >
- >I thought YOU were supposed to make up a life story (role-playing?) If you get
- >a super-duper creative fuzzy Turing-box program for making up stories, let me
- >know! I think I'll use it (with a little modificatioon, of course) the next
- >time I have a paper to write! Something elswe I just thought of: books cost
- >too much money these days; you could print out a whole GIGABYTE of artfully
- >written literature with that one program! Wow!
-
- Well, it sounds like a great idea, but that ain't how it works. The CP2020
- lifepath generator basically gives your character a list of events that
- happened during the last few years of life up to the point where you start
- playing it. The challenge is to piece all that together, one event per year.
- Problem is, you can either choose or roll, which wouldn't be as good if done
- with a computer program. But it's easier to make up quick Non-Player Characters
- that way...
-
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